F. Mbossa, 52, a school teacher in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, said she was shocked by the "arrogance of the West" in carrying out the NATO airstrikes.

"It's clear that France and the others never truly wanted an independent Africa and that is why they never hesitated to kill all those who advocate for a strong and unified Africa," Mbossa said with tears in her eyes.

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah underlined that Syria is a partner in the victories of resistance movements in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq, because it stood by them, adding "Syria's support was a [>] decisive factor in the victories."

"What is wanted from Syria [by The Superpower] today not reforms or democracy, but the fall of the resistant regime which rejected the US provisions and supported the resistance against the new-Middle East Project," Nasrallah told al-Manar TV in an interview broadcast Monday.

He said that President Bashar al-Assad is the [>] only Arab leader who rejected the US pressures and announced that he believes in reforms, [and is] serious to carry them out, adding "the Syrian popular Will is to support the reforms."

Over 90% of the people we [?] stop, question and frisk have [been] found to have done nothing wrong at all. That would not be tolerated under any other ethnic group," [New York state senator Eric] Adams says.

He argues that if, "11-, 12-, 13-year-old, young, white children," were stopped and searched by the police repeatedly, "the city of New York would not accept that."

Adams claims he attended a meeting that included NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly, in which the senior officer stated that the reason stop-and-frisk is instituted at its current levels is to "instil in every young man from those communities [black and Hispanic] that any time they leave their house they can be searched by the police."

Stewart Jackson, parliamentary private secretary to Owen Paterson, the Northern Ireland Secretary, effectively resigns, telling MPs he will defy the Government even though it will mean losing the "baubles of ministerial office".

Vatican sides with anti-capitalist protesters and attacks global financial system

In a forthright statement, the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace called for an end to rampant speculation, the redistribution of wealth, greater ethics and the establishment of a "central world bank" to which national banks would have to cede power.